Energy of the Stage
Karla Jennings and Theroun D’Arcy Patterson have won Essential Theatre’s 2014 playwriting competition, an award that usually goes to a single playwright. Both shows will be produced this summer in Essential’s annual festival.
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What to see? Choose one, or all three, of Essential Theatre’s world premieres in their final performances; an epic, American and/or French, respectively, at Serenbe Playhouse and/or Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville; jazz in the great outdoors at Callanwolde; or a sexy foray into love, philosophy and science with Weird Sisters Theatre Project’s Georgia premiere of “Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight.”
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Looking for something cultural to do in the next week or so? Here’s our select list of recommendations, topped by “Les Misérables” at Aurora Theatre, “Hair” at Serenbe Playhouse and “Every Tongue Confess” at Horizon Theatre. Your choices are many.
Read MoreIt’s a big weekend in WET-lanta. “Hair” opens at Serenbe Playhouse, “Les Misérables” opens at Aurora Theatre, the Essential Theatre’s New Play Festival is in full swing and that wacky gang at Dad’s Garage says goodbye to its longtime home with a special TheatreSports. Where will you be?
Read MoreIf the weather keeps you inside this weekend, or you tire of all the snap, crackle and pop of fireworks, we recommend the hilariously quirky “5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche” by Weird Sisters Theatre Project, anything at Serenbe Playhouse and the gorgeous “Metamorphoses” at Georgia Shakespeare … but that’s just a start.
Read MoreEssential Theatre’s 2013 New Play Festival begins July 12 and features three world premieres by Georgia writers.
Read More7 Stages this week launched its new — and free — Home Brew Series of new-play readings with a piece titled “Mass Transit Muse” by Michael Molina. The series continues Sunday with “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” by Atlanta playwright Nathaniel Lachenmeyer.
Read More“Sweet Charity” opens this weekend at Aurora Theatre, puppet slammers from across the country are in town and “Time Between Us” continues its regional premiere run at Serenbe Playhouse. Plus! Much! More!
Read MoreLooking for something cultural to do this weekend? We strongly suggest the new musical “Time Between Us” in its regional premiere at Serenbe Playhouse, the inspiring Youth Creates at 7 Stages and, at Theatrical Outfit, Rob Cleveland and Eric J. Little in “The Adventures of High John the Conqueror.”
Read MoreLooking for something cultural to do this weekend? Encore Atlanta recommends “Evelyn in Purgatory,” which opens Essential Theatre’s monthlong new play festival … and a bounty of Shakespeare.
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